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Hi all, I hope everyone's staying healthy and sane of mind through these interesting times.

A while back I posted about some planned updates to UA, and wanted to recap on that. We had planned to have a beta release of the v4 software by the end of Q1 this year. Of course, March and April brought some unexpected challenges for many people, and our timeline for this project suffered a bit due to it.

As of now, testing and refinement of the new software is picking back up, and we'll shortly be inviting people that want to help with beta testing in a closed environment. I don't currently have a target release date in mind, but expect that it will be some time in June.

Access DevCon Vienna 2020 is now a virtual event. The event includes sessions and presentation by various Access developers from Europe and the USA. Ebo Quansah, the Access Dev PM will be presenting in the conference. The conference if free to attend, but you must register, and there is a max of 250 attendees.

Access DevCon takes place on Thursday and Friday, April 23 and 24, 2020. Sessions will start at 7:00 a.m. PST until 12:00 noon PST on both days.

Previously, users were required to install the Access Database Engine (ACE) Redistributable (or “redist”) to expose ACE outside of the Office bubble. Upon transferring data between existing Microsoft Office files and those outside of Office, one needed to download a set of components to facilitate the process. 2016, 2019, and O365 consumer versions of Access have not exposed its ACE engine outside of Office, including the ACE OLEDB provider.

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It's been something we, as a community, asked for, and the dev team listened and acted on the request.